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Pronunciation: [fɹˈiːdmɛn] (IPA)

Freedmen is a term used to describe former slaves who were released from bondage after the American Civil War. However, there are other words that have been used as synonyms for freedmen throughout history. These include emancipated people, liberated individuals, manumitted individuals, and enfranchised citizens. Emancipated people embodies the freedom that they have obtained, liberated individuals is another term that connotes the same meaning, manumitted individuals carries the aspect of legal release from bondage, while enfranchised citizens cements the freedom of these individuals by incorporating their political participation. These words serve to remind us of the resilience and power that the freedmen demonstrated in history, and the important role they played in shaping America's social fabric.
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What are the hypernyms for Freedmen?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    ex-slaves, former slaves, manumitted slaves, discharged slaves, emancipated slaves, liberated slaves.

Usage examples for Freedmen

This anecdote perhaps lacks evidence; but there can be no doubt that the Freedmen of 1865 were, as a body, entirely unfitted to exercise the suffrage thrust upon them.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
The two latter, being Freedmen, were naturally brought into closer association with, and dependence on, their social superiors.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Two in particular, the invasion of the new Hellenism and the rise of the Freedmen, he anathematises with the scorn and old Roman prejudice of the elder Cato.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Freedmen

  • Mayor Macbeth, of Charleston, told General Howard that he did not believe that a bureau at Washington could manage the social relations of the people from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. But the answer to Mayor Macbeth is that he and his companions have managed those relations at a cost to the country of four years of civil war, three thousand millions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of lives. The Freedmen's Bureau will hardly be as expensive as that. And while such a bureau merely defends the rights of a certain class under the laws, the aid societies give them that education which in the present state of local feeling would be inevitably withheld. The mighty arch of Sherman, wasting and taming the land, is followed by the noiseless steps of the band of unnamed heroes and heroines who are teaching the people. The soldier drew the furrow, the teacher drops the seed. There is many and many a devoted woman, hidden at this moment in the lowliest cabins of the South, whose name poets will not sing nor historians record, but whose patient toil the eye that marks the sparrow's fall beholds and approves. Not more noble, not more essential, was the work of the bravest and most famous of the heroes who fell in the wild storm of battle, than that of many a woman to us unknown, faithful through privation and exposure and disease, and perishing at the lonely outpost of duty in the act of helping the nation keep its word.
    George William Curtis

Related words:

freed slaves, emancipation proclamation, freedmen,

freed slaves civil war,

free slaves, slave emancipation, how to emancipate slaves

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